Everything flows. Nature and culture, life and art are recounted in the drawings of Malgosia Jankowska. And doing so, they ask what has actually changed over the centuries in the essence of life and its grand narratives, despite all the movements and developments?
In her drawings, she creates small narrative strands that can be thought out differently time and again. Allusions, references and metaphors are strung together, opening up associative spaces and initiating prose, without actually portraying an occurrence. Malgosia Jankowska constructs drawn parallel worlds, in which the classic themes of art history are construed in the present, linked with our own everyday existence in nature and peppered with dream images. In this way, the tradition of drawing in its function of capturing a moment or sketching a reality becomes transposed into an autonomous narrative that is typically reserved for paintings. With her subtlety of colour, she applies the pigments she herself combines in the palette to support and convey the mood intended. Doing so, the reductive colouring enhances the intrinsic symbolic import of the colours, which never denotes just one level of meaning. And these interpretative ambivalences form an accord with the subjects she draws.
Malgosia Jankowska was born in 1978 in Sochaczew/Poland. She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2001.